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Festivals are important part of our lives at every age, caste, creed , society, country and world as a whole. For a child festival means staying away from routine, better family mood, good food, travel, clothing etc. When we grow young , festival leads to chilling out, no commitments, no routine life so on and so forth. When we cross the age further, festivals pushes us to meet our nears and dears, off from the routine along with family time.
In last couple of decades I hv noticed interference of media too in the festivals. Mostly the media in current times affects negatively the celebrations. Over consumption of information, social media pressure , mental obsession of media has taken away the way we used to celebrate the festivals. Now a days social media decides whom to wish and whom not, we have to flow in the direction dictated by the media as number of messages you get , it is compulsory to reply else it may affect the relationship adversely. Now you can not take off mentally during the festival. You have to b always ON socially and respond on same way you do it regularly. There is no OFF from social media these days else's you may be termed as arrogant and rude. Also this social media has multiplied the festivals. Infact every major festival starts on social media and ends with it. The duration of the festival is also stretched and now major festivals are celebrated for 7-10 days.
In our Hindu culture number of festivals are much more than other religions. These festivals costs a lot to us due to their longevity and spendings. May be this is one of the major reasons that we have left behind economically. The per capita income speaks all but no one wants to pin point to this fact that so much holidays are severely damaging our economy. Our leaders speaks total economic size but not per capita.
Festivals are important part of our lives at every age, caste, creed , society, country and world as a whole. For a child festival means staying away from routine, better family mood, good food, travel, clothing etc. When we grow young , festival leads to chilling out, no commitments, no routine life so on and so forth. When we cross the age further, festivals pushes us to meet our nears and dears, off from the routine along with family time.
In last couple of decades I hv noticed interference of media too in the festivals. Mostly the media in current times affects negatively the celebrations. Over consumption of information, social media pressure , mental obsession of media has taken away the way we used to celebrate the festivals. Now a days social media decides whom to wish and whom not, we have to flow in the direction dictated by the media as number of messages you get , it is compulsory to reply else it may affect the relationship adversely. Now you can not take off mentally during the festival. You have to b always ON socially and respond on same way you do it regularly. There is no OFF from social media these days else's you may be termed as arrogant and rude. Also this social media has multiplied the festivals. Infact every major festival starts on social media and ends with it. The duration of the festival is also stretched and now major festivals are celebrated for 7-10 days.
In our Hindu culture number of festivals are much more than other religions. These festivals costs a lot to us due to their longevity and spendings. May be this is one of the major reasons that we have left behind economically. The per capita income speaks all but no one wants to pin point to this fact that so much holidays are severely damaging our economy. Our leaders speaks total economic size but not per capita.
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